Meat quality and meat safety of goats infected with caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) disease: Is this fundamental knowledge established? | ||||
| Microbes and Infectious Diseases | ||||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 25 August 2025 | ||||
| Document Type: Short Reports (case reports) | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mid.2025.396771.2936 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Faez Firdaus Jesse Abdullah  1; Bura Paul Thlama2, 3; Krishnan Nair Balakrishnan4; Teik Chung Eric Lim5; Nur Amira Azhar6; Mohd Jefri Norsidin1; Mohd Lila Mohd Azmi7
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| 1Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia | ||||
| 2Department of Animal Science and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia Campus Bintulu Sarawak, Malaysia, | ||||
| 3Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri, 600230, Borno State, Nigeria | ||||
| 4Biotechnology Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah Malaysia | ||||
| 5Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia | ||||
| 6Agro-Biotechnology Institute Malaysia, National Institutes of Biotechnology Malaysia, 43400 Serdang Selangor Malaysia | ||||
| 7Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is the causative agent of small ruminants' caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) disease. Little is known about the meat quality and safety of goats infected with Caseous Lymphadenitis (CLA) disease at different chronicity. Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is currently considered an untreatable disease because of the nature of its encapsulated lesions. Caseous lymphadenitis has insidious effects on the productivity of an animal. Still, there is little known effect of Caseous Lymphadenitis (CLA) disease in goats with different chronicities in terms of meat quality and meat safety. There is a knowledge gap in CLA research; some countries still consume meat from CLA-infected animals, and only visceral organs are removed. The meat from CLA-infected animals is still on the market and consumed by the public. This fundamental information and knowledge are helpful in determining the association of CLA disease with meat quality and safety. Therefore, there is a need to establish fundamental understanding of the effect of Caseous Lymphadenitis (CLA) disease in goats at different chronicity on the meat quality and meat safety to obtain the scientific information to disseminate to the public and owners of the farm and the most important to close the gap of CLA research in small ruminants. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Caseous Lymphadenitis; Goat; Meat Quality; Meat Safety; Animal Disease Chronicity | ||||
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